Head First HTML with CSS

getting a feel for some other properties
Property
Soup
Use color to set the font
color of text elements.
color
This property controls the
weight of text. Use it to
make text bold.
font-weight
330 Chapter 8
left
This is how you tell an
element how to position its
left side.
This property sets the
space between lines in a
text element.
line-height
Controls the
position of the
top of the
element.
margin
top
letter-spacing
background-color
This property controls the
background color of an element.
border
This property puts a border around an
element. You can have a solid border, a
ridged border, a dotted border...
font-size
If you need space
between the edge of an
element and its content,
use margin.
Makes text bigger
or smaller.
text-align
list-style
CSS has a lot of style properties.
You’ll see quite a few of these in
the rest of this book, but have a
quick look now to get an idea
of all the aspects of style
you can control with CSS.
This lets you set the spacing
between letters. L i k e t h i s.
Use this property
to put an image
behind an element..
Use this property to align your text
to the left, center, or right.
Use this property for
italic or oblique text.
font-style
background-image
This property lets you
change how list items
look in a list.